01.23.2011 / CLUI HOUSTON
A new kind of interpretive research platform has been deployed at the CLUI Gulf States Field Office in Houston. Constructed over the last year by Simparch, the vessel is a floating workstation designed to support the production and presentation of creative interpretive projects on the nation’s inland waterways. Built on an aluminum pontoon base, the boat is named TexHex, due to its Texas origins and the hexagonal shape that recurs in its form and concept, referencing such things as Fullerian polygons, coastal fortifications, and petrochemical molecules. The boat connects to a modular polygonal raft structure that can be moved and reconfigured, like a small floating island, and a transition between ship and shore.
